林中斌 部落格 / Blog Chong-Pin Lin

8年來陸工資年增10.6％ 全球第一

工商時報2016/09/20

http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20160920000739-260301

   accessed Oct 3, 2016

Why It’s Safe to Scrap America’s ICBM

 William J. Perry, New York Times, Oct. 1, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/opinion/why-its-safe-to-scrap-americas-icbms.html?_r=0 

accessed Oct 3, 2016

• 美前國防部部長裴利建議銷毀美國州際彈導飛彈，因為它們耗錢，危險，無必要

林中斌 Oct. 03. 2016

• Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. William Perry suggest that the U.S. should scrap its ICBMs as they are costly to maintain, dangerous and not necessary.

Chong-Pin Lin Oct. 03. 2016

Rich province, poor province

 The Economist, Oct. 1, 2016

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21707964-government-struggling-spread-wealth-more-evenly-rich-province-poor-province

accessed Oct. 3, 2016

• 中國各省收入不平等已改善很多，未來是「趨同」(convergence)或「趨異」(divergence)尚無定論
• 內蒙古竟然如此富有，有如廣東、浙江、福建、山東。一個大意外。

林中斌 2016.10.03

No Happy Ending

 The Economist, Oct. 1, 2016

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21707911-hillary-clinton-goaded-donald-trump-rash-admissions-america-remains-divided-no

accessed Oct. 3, 2016

• 美國大選無論誰勝，社會將來一定分成兩半

林中斌 2016.10.03

• Whoever wins the coming presidents election, the U.S society will be severely divided.

Chong-Pin Lin Oct. 03. 2016

The Clinton calendar

David Brooks, The New York Times, SEP 23, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/opinion/the-clinton-calendar.html

accessed Sep 24, 2016

•  $145 million has been spent on pro-Clinton TV and radio ads while only $4 million has been spent on pro-Trump ads.
• Trump is within two or three points of Clinton nationally and leading in a bunch of the key swing states. In Ohio by five. In Iowa by six. In Florida by one.
• Democrats and the non-college educated whites flocking to the G.O.P. Democrats do great in America’s 100 most crowded counties, but they struggle in the 3,000 less crowded ones.

The best news you don't know

Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, SEP 22, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/opinion/the-best-news-you-dont-know.html

accessed Sep 23, 2016

• The number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.90 per person per day) has tumbled by half in two decades, and the number of small children dying has dropped by a similar proportion.
• As recently as 1981, when I was finishing college, 44 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, according to the World Bank. Now the share is believed to be less than 10 percent and falling.
•  Until the 1960s, a majority of adults were illiterate. Now 85 percent of adults worldwide are literate.
• Internationally, inequality is on the decline because of gains by the poor in places like China and India.
• As girls are educated and contraception becomes available, birthrates tumble — just as they did in the West. Indian women now average just 2.4 births.

A future haunted by ghosts of the past

SEWELL CHAN, The New York Times, SEP 22, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/europe/a-future-haunted-by-ghosts-of-the-past.html?_r=0

  accessed Sep 23, 2016

• 第四屆世界民主會議在雅典召開，結論是民主政治陷入險境。
• 會議本來要慶祝民主，卻變成「焦慮的烤問」。
• 匈牙利總理Victor Orban 2014年再度當選，擁抱“非自由式民主”(illiberal democracy)限制人民權利和自由。
• 其他類似民選政府限制人民自由包括土耳其、波蘭、俄羅斯等。
• 商業威脅民主有3方面：

       --銀行(造成金融危機)

       --媒體(高度集中化)

       --壟斷(不受管制)

修行者蒂帕嬤的心得

Advice of a Spiritual Teacher DipaMa

• This is the advice from a spiritual teacher who was born in a poor family and eventually rose to great spiritual height. You can access the six points she stressed and her life story on wikipedia through the links provided below. It is interesting that she had a habit of wishing others well which included praying for /blessing cars and airplanes. She emphasized "mindfulness" which to me is similar to the advice of "living in the present".

台灣民調：大陸將超美？是   

大陸強 台灣慘？否

2016/09/19 聯合報

• 以下是聯合報兩岸關係年度調查寄給我看過之後作訪問，文字經我看過後之修正稿全文(2016.9.16)。這些淺見並未完全見諸2016.9.19聯合報。

林中斌

   accessed September 19, 2016

Future Surprises That Could Shock the World

The International Economy, Summer 2016

• In July, the founder/editor/publisher of International Economy asked me to contribute a piece of 200-300 words addressing the question What Will Be Tomorrow’s Surprises? Here is my attempted answer “China Will Be Highly Religious” along with the other fifty some views around the world.

Chong-Pin Lin